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Online education made the digital divide visible during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on gender, economic class, locations, and different types of opportunities. Bangladeshi female varsity narratives on gender role stereotypes, economic conditions, household characteristics, family atmosphere, and online teaching strengthen the need for intersectional feminist insights. The study further examines online education potentials and pathways for more online education along intersectional lines. Qualitative methods help gauge how female university students shape their experiences with online education, and emphasize the epistemological importance of voice and women's perspectives for deeper understanding of their experiences. An ‘auto-ethnographic' approach undergirds the paper's analysis, elevating reflexive demonstrations and recommendations for more inclusive online education for female university student. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023.
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In this essay, I lay out my motivations for doing publicly engaged sociology, emphasizing both the joys and the challenges of this work, and some of the key lessons that I have learned. I explore my attempts to impact policy at the federal level and the local level of my university, as well as efforts to shape changes across academia during the COVID-19 crisis. I have found it meaningful to be working toward all of these changes. Moreover, making sense of the spaces that I inhabit, collecting data, exploring patterns, and connecting it to social theory, has deepened my thinking as a sociologist, and bettered my research more broadly. © 2023 Eastern Sociological Society.
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Resilience is generally defined as one's ability to adapt, surpass, or rebound from the experience or threat of substantial adversity. The study of resilience is an essential and complex component of social work practice, yet research suggests that many social workers struggle with proficient knowledge as well as the mindful application of the critical construct of resilience theory. As a result, a social worker's theoretical approach may lack the focus on the constructs, aims, tenets, and assumptions of resilience theory when applied to work with diverse, marginalized, vulnerable, and disenfranchised populations. This holds especially true in challenging times such as civil unrest and global crises (i.e., the COVID-19 pandemic) when social workers are bombarded with the needs of their consumers, their community, and their own interpersonal needs. This study sought to understand how constructs of resiliency theory can be instrumental in understanding how social workers make meaning of resilience as they respond to the intersectional adversity experienced during contemporary social issues. The responses from the social workers' interviews suggested three major themes: Resilience is Active Rather Than Passive, Prior Experiences Shape Resilience Understanding, and Resilience Perspectives Impacts Social Work Practice. The findings of this qualitative research project will generate opportunities to integrate resiliency theory into a unified framework for reflective and culturally responsive social work practice in these challenging times. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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The duel systemic societal harms of the COVID-19 pandemic and violent racial injustice have reexposed centuries-long oppression and violence that affects Black people in the United States. These systemic harms, however, are not unilaterally distributed across racial lines, as Black women and girls endure intersectional oppression, including the unique amalgamation of racism and sexism. It is within these interlocking oppressions that sexual abuse flourishes. This chapter opens with critical visioning regarding how we understand inequality in social justice movements. It introduces scholarship on anti-Black racism, intersectional oppression, and Crenshaw's (1991) theories of intersectionality to frame the contextually oppressive experiences of Black women and girls. The chapter provides an application for examining intersectionality within the field of psychology. It details what such intersectional oppression can actually look like in the lives of Black women and girls. Finally, the chapter closes with summary bullet points of the main takeaway messages. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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COVID-19 resulted in the unexpected transition to remote learning for K-12 schools, exacerbating the existing digital divide and impacting the educational outcomes of marginalized youth. This article reviews the literature on the impacts of the pandemic on the educational outcomes of marginalized youth due to remote learning and the digital divide. Here, we provide an overview of the pandemic and remote schooling from an intersectional lens, discuss the impacts of the digital divide on learning for students during the pandemic, and then consider impacts on the delivery of special education supports. Additionally, we review the literature on the widening achievement gap in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Future directions for research and practice are discussed.
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Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidality have long been known to be elevated among LGBTQ+ communities and it was expected that the COVID-19 pandemic would deepen systemic injustices and inequities in mental health outcomes. However, it remains difficult to document inequities as surveillance systems do not typically capture LGBTQ+-inclusive data necessary to study the impact of COVID-19 on LGBTQ+ population health. This chapter reports on two studies designed to address this gap. The COVID-19 Impacts Study (CIS) documented the early mental health and social impacts of COVID-19 among sexual and gender minority adults, as well as adults with HIV, during the first round of shut-downs and initial economic disruptions. Subsequently, the Youth and Young Adults COVID-19 Study (YYA) measured the impacts of COVID-19 on the mental health outcomes, testing/vaccination behaviors, and stigmatization experiences of LGBTQ+ and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) young people. Several recommendations are discussed-including mandated collection of data on sexual orientation and gender identity in all surveillance systems, policy solutions to better address access and cost barriers, and deep and meaningful engagement that empowers communities. © 2023 The authors.
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This chapters discusses the power structures affecting access to healthcare and the quality of received care including factors like gender, ethnicity, social and economic status among others from an intersectional perspective. Structural changes are necessary to decrease the health inequalities and vulnerabilities during the pandemic. An intersectional approach helps to display the interactions of different power structures and social categories which put people at differential risk of infection and/or mortality of COVID-19. The intersectional approach should be used not only to understand the pandemic impact on people but also when planning the healthcare policies, care plans and support services. © 2023 Kemi Ogunyemi and Adaora I. Onaga. All rights reserved.
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This dissertation presented a hermeneutic phenomenological study conducted with 12 Latina mothers who were survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) considering or in a process of shared parenting with their former abusive partner. The purpose of this study was to explore the essence of shared parenting experiences among participants in the IPV context and examine how attachment style, adverse childhood experiences, and cultural values impacted their shared parenting decisions and processes. The study was guided by the theoretical frameworks of symbolic interactionism, intersectional feminism, and attachment. Findings indicated adverse childhood experiences and cultural values affected participants' shared parenting decisions and processes, with all but one participant reporting they desired shared parenting for the sake of their children. Participants were fully aware of risks associated with shared parenting including psychological abuse, physical violence, and coercive control. Participants reported risk-management strategies, the most prevalent of which included involving a third party, often family or a trusted friend, using supervised visitation, and meeting the perpetrator in a public place. Given the role of attachment style in relation to shared parenting was unclear, future research should investigate the impact of attachment style and shared parenting. Additionally, assessing adverse childhood experiences and cultural values will be beneficial when combined with interview data. Due to the prevalence of IPV, culturally sensitive and trauma-informed interventions must focus on individual skills training for survivors, group therapy to help process IPV experiences and instill hope, and relational therapy with family members and loved ones to strengthen problem-solving skills and promote recovery. Furthermore, in the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic, many women reside with perpetrators due to lack of resources, so secure online platforms must be constructed to provide support and ensure women and children's safety. Recommendations were provided for improving how the legal and judicial system recognize and respond to coercive control as a punishable form of abuse. Moreover, to improve competence among mental health practitioners working with IPV survivors, graduate programs for mental health practitioners must include general knowledge and intervention on IPV. Intervention through the educational system and the church system is also recommended. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath have affected the lives and livelihoods of women around the world and their economic impacts are having a regressive effect on gender equality (Madgavkar et al., 2020). Consequently, the gender gap between men and women that has been amplified by the pandemic is not expected to close for another 136 years (Armstrong, 2021). As President of the World Society of Victimology, I am pleased to provide this forward to the special issue. The World Society of Victimology is dedicated to improving the plight of victims of crime and the abuse of power around the globe. These issues are linked to the global fight for gender equality. © 2023 School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University.
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Hookup culture is frequently branded as promoting female empowerment, yet many detrimental effects of hooking up have been documented for women. The present study investigates the lived experience of college women in hookup culture through a phenomenological research method, paying special attention to their experiences of empowerment and/or disempowerment. An intersectional feminist lens is utilized to include how college women's experiences with power are also shaped by multiple identities in addition to gender, such as race and sexual orientation. Additionally, this dissertation explores how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted hookup culture. Six diverse college women were interviewed, their interviews coded for themes. The seven overarching themes participants spoke about were: women as sexual objects, consent in hookup culture, communication in hookup culture, the social effects of hookup culture, the emotional effects of hookup culture, the role of the pandemic on hookup culture, and their experiences of power and identity in hookup culture. This study concludes that hookup culture is not always as advertised, with significant disempowering aspects that women are sometimes silenced from voicing. A continued power imbalance between men and women may shape the way college students interact sexually. Implications for psychotherapy, program development, and future research are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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OBJECTIVES: COVID-19 surveillance data are rarely collected or disaggregated by gender identity in the United States. We quantified COVID-19 testing experiences and SARS-CoV-2 infection history among transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people to inform testing strategies and public health responses. METHODS: From June 14 through December 16, 2021, TGD adults enrolled in a US nationwide online survey with optional SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing. We used multinomial regression analyses to identify correlates of suspected and confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection (vs no known infection). We identified correlates of inability to access COVID-19 testing when needed using generalized linear models for binomial variables. RESULTS: Participants (N = 2092) reported trans masculine (30.5%), trans feminine (27.3%), and nonbinary (42.2%) gender identities. Ten percent of respondents had a confirmed history of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and 29.8% had a history of suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection. Nonbinary gender (adjusted prevalence ratio [aPR] = 1.68; 95% CI, 1.12-2.53), experiencing homelessness (aPR = 1.65; 95% CI, 1.05-2.60), and food insecurity (aPR = 1.45; 95% CI, 1.03-2.04) were associated with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. Food insecurity (aPR = 1.38; 95% CI, 1.10-1.72), chronic physical health condition (aPR = 1.44; 95% CI, 1.15-1.80), chronic mental health condition (aPR = 3.65; 95% CI, 2.40-5.56), and increased anticipated discrimination scores (aPR = 1.03; 95% CI, 1.01-1.05) were associated with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection. Thirty-four percent (n = 694 of 2024) of participants reported an inability to access COVID-19 testing when needed, which was associated with Latinx or Hispanic ethnicity, inconsistent telephone access, homelessness, disability, and transportation limitations. The majority (79.4%) reported a complete COVID-19 vaccine course at the time of participation. CONCLUSIONS: Inclusion of TGD people in public health surveillance and tailored public health strategies to address TGD communities' social and structural vulnerabilities may reduce barriers to COVID-19 testing.
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COVID-19 , Transgender Persons , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Gender Identity , COVID-19 Testing , COVID-19 Vaccines , COVID-19/diagnosis , COVID-19/epidemiology , SARS-CoV-2ABSTRACT
The special issue "Feminist Publishing Against the Pandemic” features essays from thirteen contributors whose work would have been presented at "FiMA2: Feminist Revolutions,” the second conference of the Feminist inter/Modernist Association (FiMA), originally scheduled for Spring 2020, rescheduled, and eventually canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. By soliciting snapshot essays of no more than 2000 words, the editors of the issue are able to showcase a wide range of feminist modernist scholarship in danger of being lost due to the constraints of the pandemic and a profession in crisis. Authors included in the special issue engage with modern women writers, artists, and culture-makers who navigated their own constraints such as fighting for suffrage, managing domestic and professional commitments, responding to two world wars, and continuing feminist work in the post-war years. This collection of essays highlights vibrancy and complexity in the field of feminist modernist scholarship. © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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In this chapter, we introduce the book’s central thesis that global education corporations along with higher education administrators in the U.S. and other Western democracies seized on the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to further advance a neoliberal education agenda consistent with the principles and practices of “disaster capitalism” (Klein, The shock doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism. Metropolitan Books, 2007). We review existing scholarship of neoliberalism and disaster capitalism in higher education, expanding the conceptual framing toward a feminist intersectional political economy perspective that informs our analysis throughout the book. In doing so, we argue that the current crisis in higher education operates squarely within a larger context of advanced global capitalism fueled by variable and historically situated racial structures and hetero-patriarchies that particularly sacrifice students without race, class or gender privilege. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The worldwide disruption caused by the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted the activities of marine scientists working towards the goals of the UN Ocean Decade. As in other disciplines, marine early-career researchers (ECRs) are essential contributors to the development of novel and innovative science. Based on a survey of 322 of our peers, we show that the pandemic negatively impacted marine ECRs in ways that further exacerbate existing structural challenges such as social isolation, job insecurity, and short-term contracts, competitive funding, and work pressure. Furthermore, we find that the success and wellbeing of marine ECRs depends heavily on networking opportunities, gaining practical experience, collecting data, and producing publications, all of which were disrupted by the pandemic. Our analysis shows that those in the earliest stages of their careers feel most vulnerable to long-term career disadvantage as a result of the pandemic. This paper contributes to the empirical body of work about the impacts of the pandemic on marine science and offers recommendations on how marine ECRs should be supported to achieve the UN Ocean Decade's goal of producing "the science we need for the ocean we want".
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AIMS/OBJECTIVES: Through interviews with clinical service providers, we explored stigma's impact on HIV service provision for African Americans during COVID-19. BACKGROUND: African Americans experience disproportionate rates of HIV and COVID-19. We explored COVID-19's impact on HIV services for African American adults in a Southern city. DESIGN: The study was qualitative and observational. METHODS: Key informant interviews were conducted (n = 11) across two healthcare centres and two community-based organisations and thematically analysed using phenomenological approaches by two coders. Interviews explored pre- and post-COVID-19 service provision and parallels between COVID-19 and HIV, particularly as related to stigma. The COREQ checklist was utilised to ensure research quality. RESULTS: According to the providers interviewed, all providers offered HIV prevention/treatment, but PrEP and preventive services diminished greatly early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Successful transition to telehealth depended on existing telehealth use. Challenges exacerbated by COVID-19 included food/housing insecurity and physical distancing constraints. Clients' COVID-19 informational needs shifted from concerns to vaccine requests over time. Interviewees stated HIV and COVID-19 both carry 'risk taking'; however, HIV risk was more physically intimate than COVID-19. Notably, some providers used stigmatising language referring to clients with HIV/COVID and omitted person-centred language. CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest need to address challenges in telehealth to improve client experiences now and for future pandemics. More research is needed to examine intersectional stigmatisation of COVID-19 and HIV for African Americans to design person-centred counselling interventions. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: Results demonstrate need for provider training to reframe stigma discussions using client centeredness, educating African Americans on HIV and COVID-19 prevention, and coordination with local organisations to address multiple care needs. PATIENT/PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION: This research highlights needs of clients based on the views of healthcare providers caring for predominantly African American communities in a Southern city. However, no patients, service users, caregivers or members of the public were directly involved in this study.
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In this article, the authors provide empirical data about the Spanish population during lockdown on the following topics: center dot The impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis is not limited to health and disease-related aspects exclusively. center dot The pandemic has affected everybody. However, consequences in terms of psychological distress have been different depending on gender and age. center dot The results of this study point towards the importance of considering psychosocial factors in the development of social work interventions that enable citizens to mitigate the impact of social and health-related emergency situations and improve their coping capacities, improving resilience. center dot Social work professionals have been involved in social care since the beginning of the pandemic, but their practice has continued after lockdown ended, with all the consequences that this entails. center dot Social work has become visible as an essential profession during the pandemic and must be present, not only in the provision of services but also in the formulation of social policies. center dot The current situation presents a professional challenge to develop comprehensive interventions in order to deal with future social and health emergencies. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis has had an unprecedented impact on Spanish society regarding health and social issues. The purpose of this study is to analyse the potential relationship that may exist between social and personal factors and the levels of psychological distress experienced by the Spanish population during lockdown. A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted using an ad hoc online questionnaire consisting of forty-three questions. The survey was administered to a sample of 3,436 people that were living in Spain during the second extension of the State of Alarm. A linear mixed model with random intersection has been used. Our findings demonstrate the intersectional vulnerability of young women and the impact different factors such as a COVID-19 diagnosis, experiencing symptoms compatible with COVID, an existing disability, a previous illness or solitary confinement may have on psychological distress levels. Conversely, higher resilience levels have shown a correlation with lower psychological distress levels.
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While the connection between arts, culture, and public health is not new, intentional efforts toward cross-sector collaboration in these areas are being lifted as timely and transformative. This is a call to artists, creatives, culture bearers, and activators. This is a call to public health practitioners, doctors, educators, and the myriad of peoples whose work touches the public's health. In this piece, I propose a marriage of these two seemingly disparate disciplines-arts and public health-their actors and engagements. In this piece, I propose this marriage as dance, as movement, as evolution, even revolution. What could our world look like if more of the people and the sectors of arts and public health worked together to advance our most pressing public health priorities? I offer this work to help us imagine the possibilities of growing this intentional collaboration. This piece both proposes and marries; iterates and exemplifies. By presenting this work as poetry, I propose that art not be the afterthought, the accent, the cherry on top as we strive to address public health issues, a multitude exacerbated and illuminated in the face of COVID-19. I posit that art is the consistency, the substance, the forethought, and a vehicle through which we can come to realize the positive change that we hope to see. As we ponder our next potential public health engagements, know this. Not only can this marriage soothe us and move us; but it can literally improve us. This is the proposal. Will you accept?To view the original version of this poem, see the supplemental material section of this article online.
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Healthcare workers in secure psychiatric settings operate within highly restrictive legal frameworks and are often exposed to ethically complex scenarios. They also have an increased risk of experiencing a constellation of occupational traumas, resulting from exposure to violence and self-harm, which cumulatively can affect wellbeing and violate deeply held moral codes. Moral injury, which results from perpetrating, failing to prevent, witnessing, or learning about acts that transgress deeply held moral beliefs and expectations, has been posited as a construct that can account for a range of deleterious psychological outcomes. The current study sought to explore whether moral injury was endorsed, and related to wellbeing, within a secure psychiatric setting. The cross-sectional survey data (N = 237) showed that exposure to potentially morally injurious events and distress resulting from such events, were prevalent in healthcare professionals. Furthermore, moral injury was predictive of higher secondary trauma and burnout, and lower compassion satisfaction. The perceived impact of COVID-19 was also predictive of secondary trauma and burnout, though held no relationship with moral injury nor compassion satisfaction. The findings indicate that models of occupational distress would benefit from including consideration of the morally challenging nature of working in secure settings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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After COVID-19 was characterised as a pandemic in spring 2020, care and care work became very dominant topics in public discourse in Western Europe. Against this backdrop, the paper turns to the underlying social structures and conditions of caring relations and aims to go before and beyond the pandemic. The serious occasion of the COVID-19 pandemic and its unjust social effects will be taken as a starting point to engage with social theory to discuss pre-existing uneven ‘geographies of caring relations’ in capitalist societies, which pandemic-related measures are built on. For this, the paper draws on Joan Tronto’s extended thoughts on critical feminist care ethics, emphasising her notion of caring-with as the possibility to trust in caring relations based on interdependencies and solidarity, and argues for explicitly linking caring relations to questions of social justice. This framework stresses the foundations of social injustice and shifts the perspective from individual caring subjects and places (‘who and where’) to unjust social structures (‘how’). Moreover, it challenges dominant biopolitics and care economies by way of an insourcing of caring relationships. By conceiving care as part of social theory and not only social analyses, care ethics provide a normative framework for geography and beyond to imagine and practise social change. © 2022, Erdkunde. All rights reserved.